Assignment 4 (Azure Fundamental)

Advantage & Disadvantage

• The advantages of AWS are it is the best cloud computing service since 2006 and offers undoubtedly the massive scope of its operation. The biggest disadvantage is its cost. It is not quite cost-effective for many enterprises when running a high volume of workloads on the service.
• The pro of Azure is Azure is tightly integrated with Windows and other Microsoft software. Thus, many enterprises are continuing to use Azure as they built loyalty for existing Microsoft customers. On the cons side, its functions provided are limited compared to AWS and need enterprise management from customers.
• The advantages of GCP are it has a flexible pricing model and it specializes in high compute offerings like Big Data, analytics and machine learning. On the downside, it is not focused on supporting large, enterprise projects and a range of functions is lacking innovation.

Opinion

In my opinion, the best of the cloud service provider for my software development is GCP. This is because it offers the most cost-effective services for start-up and small businesses. Besides, I can execute all computing operations by using the powerful hardware utilized by Google for its web services such as Gmail.